Is being Earnest really that important?

Like a number of our short stories, The Importance of Being Earnest is overly concerned with the issue of identity. Should we take Wilde's discussion of identity seriously, or does his humor conceal critical ideas regarding how we know who we are?

I really enjoyed Oscar Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest. I could actually get the humor within the witt projected by each chacter. The language of the drama made it easy fro me to understand everything that the characters were saying. Where as in The Taming Of The Shrew, the Shakesperian language made it difficult for me to really get a full understanding on all the characters. The humor in that drama really wasnt funny to me. But I was able to laugh at The Importance of Being Earnest.

I think that deep down each one of us have bunburyist tendencies. We all take on many different roles which can make us act different around certain people or in different circumstances. When I go back to my home town, I often feel like a completely different person.I think that is just because I am outside of this Newark bubble that is UD. I do not beleive that I am like Jack because I am not trying to convince people that I am not really who I am in both places. It is just a different places that can give you different emotions which cna make you feel different. I believe that Wilde is just trying to put a twist on Jack's character. I do no think that he is trying to get the reader to analyze themselves and compare their bunburyist tendencuies to Jack's bunburyist lifestyle. It also adds more humor when Jack finds out that Gwendolyn,the girl he loves and wants to marry only wants to marry someone named Earnest. I do not believe this humor portrayed here should be taken seriously.